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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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